Packers Sanitation Services, Inc., was hit with over $1.5 million in fines by the Department of Labor after more than 100 children were found to be working in plants across the country.
The U.S. Department of Labor announced Friday that Packers Sanitation Services, Inc. , paid overafter the company was discovered to have more than 100 children working in dangerous jobs at meatpacking plants across the country.
The DOL ultimately found 13 plants in eight states had 102 underage workers – Arkansas, Colorado, Indiana, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, Tennessee and Texas. The department then reviewed records for 55 locations where PSSI provided cleaning services and found even more violations involving children ages 13 to 17.
At least three minors, including a 13-year-old, suffered burns from cleaning chemicals used at the JBS plant in Grand Island, Neb., The AP reported. This plant also had the most underage workers employed at 27. A Tyson facility in Sedalia, Missouri, was also searched, but there were no verifiable violations found.
Under December's consent judgment, PSSI must identify all minors and remove them from the dangerous work.
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